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Q: poll() can't detect event when socket is closed locally? I'm working on a project that will port a TCP/IP client program onto an embedded ARM-Linux controller board. The client program was originally written in epoll(). However, the target platform is quite old; the only kernel available is 2.4.x, and epoll() is not supported. So I decided to rewrite the I/O loop in poll().
But when I'm testing code, I found that poll() does not act as I expected : it won't return when a TCP/IP client socket is closed locally, by another thread. I've wrote a very simple codes to do some test:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <poll.h>

struct pollfd   fdList[1];

void *thread_runner(void *arg)
{
    sleep(10);
    close(fdList[0].fd);
    printf("socket closed\n");
    pthread_exit(NULL);
}

int main(void)
{
    struct  sockaddr_in hostAddr;
    int sockFD;
    char buf[32];
    pthread_t handle;

    sockFD = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
    fcntl(sockFD,F_SETFL,O_NONBLOCK|fcntl(sockFD,F_GETFL,0));

    inet_aton("127.0.0.1",&(hostAddr.sin_addr));
    hostAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    hostAddr.sin_port  = htons(12345);
    connect(sockFD,(struct sockaddr *)&hostAddr,sizeof(struct sockaddr));

    fdList[0].fd = sockFD;
    fdList[0].events = POLLOUT;

    pthread_create(&handle,NULL,thread_runner,NULL);

    while(1) {
        if(poll(fdList,1,-1) < 1) {
            continue;
        }
        if(fdList[0].revents & POLLNVAL ) {
            printf("POLLNVAL\n");
            exit(-1);
        }
        if(fdList[0].revents & POLLOUT) {
            printf("connected\n");
            fdList[0].events = POLLIN;
        }
        if(fdList[0].revents & POLLHUP ) {
            printf("closed by peer\n");
            close(fdList[0].fd);
            exit(-1);
        }
        if(fdList[0].revents & POLLIN) {
            if( read(fdList[0].fd, buf, sizeof(buf)) < 0) {
                printf("closed by peer\n");
                close(fdList[0].fd);
                exit(-1);
            }
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

In this code I first create a TCP client socket, set to non-blocking mode, add to poll(), and close() the socket in another thread. And the result is: "POLLNVAL" is never printed while the socket is closed.
Is that an expected behavior of poll() ? Will it help if I choose select() instead of poll() ?

A: Yes, this is expected behavior. You solve this by using shutdown() on the socket instead of close().
See e.g. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/socket/ section 2.6
EDIT: The reason this is expected is that poll() and select() reacts to events happening on one of their fd's. close() removes the fd, it does not exist at all anymore, and thus it can't have any events associated with it.

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Nicolás Dujovne: 'We were going to replace the stand-by with an extended fund facility when it expired'
Former economy minister Nicolás Dujovne on the Cambiemos administration, the IMF debt deals and Argentina's ongoing struggle with inflation.
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After an extremely long silence, Nicolás Dujovne returns to the political scene.
The former economy minister of the Cambiemos administration aims his fire at the rescheduling of private debt as the main error of the Frente de Todos government, affirming that today's society is prepared to make the effort implied by the structural reforms needed to heal the economy.
I recently heard a statement of yours that they [the current government] rescheduled a debt which should not have been rescheduled, that it should have been done differently. How should it have been done?
I was referring to the dollar debt with the private sector. When the Alberto Fernández government took office, they rescheduled our debt and the results of that have been very bad. Today Argentina is out of the markets with a country risk topping 2,000 points. So Argentina is evidently being punished for that rescheduling because the markets perceive that there is far more of a lack of will to pay than capacity to pay. A rescheduling which was announced during the campaign, which was one of the causes of the debacle following that Black Monday after the [2019] PASO primaries because the day after PASO Argentine assets fell 50 to 60 percent in price. And they were not wrong because they kept falling, previewing the economic misrule which would follow.
Within that, the rescheduling of the dollar debt where Argentina gave itself four years without any amortisations and practically without paying any interest with the deadlines for redemption all beginning to fall in 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027, but without any fiscal preparation for meeting those payments. Argentina's rescheduling was thus requesting a stay of execution with a huge capital and interest holiday where the bondholders would not be receiving any remuneration for many years while leaving the payment deadlines to 2023 and the next administration (whatever its party colours) along with a gigantic fiscal deficit.
There was evidently a planning error reflected in this sky-high country risk, which means that today Argentina can only finance itself by printing money or via the local capital market, which is very small. We thus see it as a great error to underestimate external sources of financing as necessary for a country which still has tiny capital markets.
And regarding the debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this year it would have been necessary to pay almost US$20 billion and a further US$20 billion next year. Do you think that was payable or would those payments have had to be postponed?
It is evident that if we had still been around in these years with a strong budget surplus, the fiscal position would have been different since pre-PASO country risk was around 700 basic points and that simply because there existed a relevant probability that Kirchnerism could win the elections, otherwise it would have been 300 to 400 points as it was in 2017. Thus a big part of the IMF programme would have been payable with placements in the private sector. But it is also clear that we were going to replace our stand-by with an extended fund facility once the time came so that it is evident that we were going to have new and longer periods for reimbursing the IMF. Those are the usual dynamics for any country which has a programme with the IMF.
So you're saying that in the case of the debt with the IMF you would have switched programmes so that the payments would have been rescheduled anyway.
That's right, not the payment deadlines without new remittances because the IMF does not reprogramme deadlines but a new programme of loans in line with the expiry dates.
[Ex-Central Bank governor Federico] Sturzenegger said in this same series of interviews, and I quote: "The prevailing logic in 2018 was basically that there was a problem of liquidity and that we were heading towards fiscal convergence and recovering confidence by reordering the accounts so that in two years we were going to incur private debt to pay off the IMF." By the same token you were taking debt from the IMF to pay off the bondholders and avoid default. From that perspective, was it plausible to think that you were going to be able to generate confidence?
Argentina's programme with the IMF was pretty similar to Portugal's where the minister was Mario Centeno. That was an example of success with a fiscal effort like ours, only that it was not interrupted by a change of the party in government. Our programme was similar to Egypt's in terms of being fiscally correct but what happened is that there was political continuity there. What Uruguay did in 2003 was also similar.
The most important component of the programme with the IMF was convergence, first primary balance and then surplus, which is what Argentina needed. The fiscal objectives set by the IMF were all met and that was highlighted in the posterior evaluation published by the IMF some month ago, underlining that fiscally the programme worked. So if you look at Argentina's recent past with episodes of shock in the balance of payments as we had in 2018 when we suddenly found ourselves still with a high fiscal deficit and trade gap. For some reason rising interest rates in the United States led to a co-ordinated capital flight from emerging markets. To that you would have to add drought in Argentina but it affected the countries which were in the most fragile situation: Argentina, Turkey and a few others. Now typically in the course of a year you do what you have to do, which is to let the currency float, depreciate the exchange rate, impose positive real interest rates and adjust fiscally. A year later you begin to see the results, inflation starts to dip and financial dollars are replaced by commercial dollars because you pass from a trade deficit to surplus while the financial dollars begin to return along with the confidence, turning both the fiscal and external situations around. And if you look at 2019, we were there: July inflation just before the elections was 2.1 percent, still very high, but the first fortnight of August was running at one percent with a strong trade surplus and an ultra-competitive exchange rate. We needed to go building from that point. And that's what happened to the countries which did not completely reverse their policies. I've already mentioned Portugal, Egypt and Uruguay to you – there are many more and it was a chance lost for Argentina, not Cambiemos or Juntos por el Cambio.
Because imagine Alberto Fernández as a candidate saying: "Look here, guys, this Macri is into neoliberal austerity and together with Dujovne they are lowering spending and we don't believe in that so we're going to continue with a programme of convergence towards fiscal balance because we have to halt the issue of debt but we're going to do it by raising taxes." Many people would not have liked it but we would not have had the market upheavals we had, the loss of value and the destruction of the collective construction made by Argentine society in the previous two or three years in terms of healthier fiscal accounts and convergence towards a floating exchange rate at levels permitting a trade surplus. So I see it as a wasted opportunity because even with condiments of a different political vision, Argentina could have stayed on the path of converging towards fiscal balance.
The aim of reviewing the past is not self-flagellation but trying to learn and draw conclusions which serve us to improve in the future. I hear your discourse and I'll now read to you another very similar paragraph from Federico Sturzenegger in that same interview: "The government had taken a gradualist approach to deficit reduction and for different reasons it had a crisis of confidence, the Treasury had problems financing and when you have that problem, which is not a problem of solvency but a problem of liquidity, of rollover, you make a decision – either you default or you seek somebody else to finance me." And the question I asked him was how many years or decades of not rescheduling would it take for Argentina to recover its institutional credit because it has already rescheduled so many times. Are you saying that there would have been a rapid recovery?
There would have been, confidence was recovering via the improvement in the fiscal numbers and, of course, it was crucial not to reschedule the debt.
If politics generated a risk of the opposition winning and that risk was within the probable, not just the possible, obviously affecting the economy, and that opposition already had a track record and a known hostility to fiscal balance, weren't you staking everything on a single card?
That's an interesting dilemma and I've thought about it a lot in these past two years since the end of our administration. It's as if one should govern differently, given that the opposition has different ideas and dialogue with Kirchnerism was very difficult and remains so. Now that within the same administration they are not talking to each other, I rewind and say 'no, we had to go our own way.' It's as if I'd said that in case Kirchnerism wins, I'll intervene in the INDEC [statistics bureau] for a softer landing because they'll only falsify the statistics so I might as well falsify them now. I don't think Argentina should have defaulted in 2018 when there was a flight of capital just because Kirchnerism was eventually going to do it later. No, we had to show our vision of the world, our vision of the economy, how to construct a prosperous country.
If I interpret you correctly, you're saying that you had to build for 2023 in 2018, even while losing the elections in 2019, you had to construct credibility for when Juntos por el Cambio made its comeback .
No, Argentina needs to construct credibility and needs many years of not rescheduling its debts, of honouring its contracts.
Even supposing that Argentina does not reschedule its debt, I think you'll agree that it will take many years for private credit in Argentina to regain credibility.
That depends on the fiscal situation because it is true that Kirchnerism has its propensities.
Not just Kirchnerism, [Domingo] Cavallo had to battle against deficit during convertibility, the problem of the fiscal deficit in Argentina is chronic, even under military dictatorships.
Yes but society [today] clearly has low tolerance.
It is correct that Kirchnerism increased public spending by 20 points [of gross domestic product].
But in a society with low tolerance for debt and with respect for contracts, what Argentina needs is an extraordinarily huge fiscal surplus. In that sense it worries me that all the current discussion centres on what we have to do to return to primary balance. And the truth is that Argentina needs, like [Luiz Inácio] Lula [da Silva]when he took office in Brazil with a massive credibility gap, the four points of primary surplus which he maintained throughout all his first term, demolishing Brazilian debt in that period. Brazil's fiscal solvency started to slip in Lula's second term but it was essentially Dilma Rousseff who turned a primary surplus of two or three points into a deficit of two or three points. It was a fiscal disaster but it was Dilma Rousseff, not Lula.
My point here – I'm rambling a bit – is that Argentina needs a really huge fiscal surplus to make us all forget the risk of rescheduling so that we can forget the risk of rescheduling and the debt can start to be genuinely reduced and not because we invented some trickery. Then we can all concentrate on our relevant business, you on your multimedia and your newspaper so you do not have to go wondering whether the government is going to pay up or not tomorrow with the same applying to any company which produces goods or services of any kind. So in order to have a calm economy where productivity can grow – and the only way wages can rise is if productivity grows – we have to take away the macroeconomic risk. And given the intolerance to debt and respect for contracts which we have as a society as a whole, we need a very high fiscal surplus and that, of course, is not magic. It requires an adult discussion among all ourselves over how we can return to a reasonable level of public spending because the level we have today cannot be financed.
Would you criticise the IMF or was your margin of negotiation with them limited?
That's a very interesting question and there are various issues to discuss here. In 2018 inflation was close to 40 percent without repressing public service pricing. In other words we were maintaining the convergence towards equilibrium since we were not halting the convergence of public service pricing towards equilibrium with a free exchange rate. That way exporters could draw some benefit and finally end up creating more jobs. And, of course, with a major monetary squeeze, we set an objective of zero expansion of the money supply.
As you well know, there are lags in monetary policy which are seen further down the road. Thus that inflation we had was high and painful but it was a macroeconomically healthier inflation than the one we have today when we are already running at an annual rate of 80 to 90 percent inflation with frozen public service billing, a semi-frozen exchange rate and capital controls. Simply because we have a gigantic fiscal deficit, no credibility and money is being printed…
It might be assumed that inflation would go down afterwards but the elections were lost.
The programme was very sustainable from the economic viewpoint but lacked political sustainability. It had to have something working better politically in order to be able to win elections. The IMF does not dedicate itself to assembling programmes so that governments can win elections. So if anybody accuses us of electioneering, nothing doing. We designed healthy macroeconomic policies without shortcuts and that evidently may have been electorally costly.
You recently said that wages had lost ground against inflation due to bad economic policies and not having a consistent programme, referring to current losses. Given the 20 percent loss in real wages during the four years of the Macri government, in great measure between 2018 and 2019, I would ask you again: was that the electoral detonator?
Beyond any doubt, the main factor explaining the electoral performance of a government swinging votes one way or another has plenty to do with real wages. The fall in the real wage was not an objective sought by the programme, it was the consequence of the external adjustment to which the economy saw itself submitted. With capital flight the economy has to accommodate itself to a higher exchange rate [for the dollar] and that leads to a transitory surge in inflation, which, of course, was going to be reversed later on. But well, it took time and finally did not happen as a result of the electoral defeat.
You have said that it is weird hearing Central Bank Governor Miguel Pesce or any other Central Bank official naming the word inflation. Is that because inflation is a necessary and even desirable tool within this economic plan?
Today's economic programme of the Alberto Fernández government is an inflationary programme.
What is your forecast? You have said that neither the deficit nor the printing of money is going to come down while inflation will keep on climbing. What is your estimate of next year's inflation?
I think it's going to be in three digits, unfortunately.
Next year.
Yes, unfortunately. The liquidation of harvest earnings will end after August. The government is not managing to accumulate reserves in a context of the best terms of trade since World War II and even then it is unable to buy reserves. Exports, which were US$75 billion last year, are leaping up to US$91 billion this year with prices accounting for almost all of that. It's an enormous positive shock and even then they cannot buy reserves because the flight from the peso, monetary expansion and negative real interest rates lead to all the private sector trying to buy imports, which are valued at the official exchange rate. In August the harvest earnings will be finally liquidated.
From the way Kirchnerite governments work in general, hanging onto the official exchange rate all they can, there are sure to be many quantitative restrictions on imports as from the end of the harvest season. When that occurs, there will be less supply of goods so that with the same demand there will be pressures to raise prices. But on the other hand, the main genuine mechanism for sterilising pesos today is the purchase of dollars to buy imports. So if I lower imports by one or two billion dollars, there are 300 to 400 billion pesos which have not been withdrawn from the market to buy imports and that will probably pressure my exchange rate gap. And again, the local capital market is tiny so we have two alternatives – either print money or issue bonds in pesos when there is no market to absorb all these excess pesos. That's the musical chairs at the moment. The Central Bank issues many pesos to pay the interest rates on the Leliq bonds. The Treasury prints many pesos because the deficit is very high and there is a sacred mantra that real interest rates must be negative. Well, it's very difficult. That's an inflationary programme.
You said: "More structural reforms were missing, we were thinking of introducing them in our second term once we had been endorsed by the citizenry and had better parliamentary numbers," adding in a much commented remark: "We suffered a transitory (sic) detour and as from 2023 we'll see the structural reforms which we could not do in the first term."
If we think like the Chinese, history is not four or eight years. Some things remained from the 2015 to 2019 experience. It showed a different way of governing and we managed to keep the coalition united. Many of the reforms we did not put through were not only because we were minorities in both chambers but also because they did not pass the filter of all the governing coalition. The priority then was to keep the governing coalition united and that mechanism was very well-oiled.
When you see the chaos and lack of control of this administration, you begin to value how our administration worked. It was very organised in terms of decision-making and consulting the other parties forming the governing coalition. Every time we had to take an important decision, it had first to be endorsed – by the president himself, of course, the Cabinet chief, the president's inner circle and then our allies, that's how it worked. And if it did not pass that filter, it was amended until it could pass.
Of course, you might say that many reforms did not see the light of day. This explains in large measure that there were no authoritarian advances during this government because the coalition was preserved and constructed. It stands firm over and above the disputes today to see who heads the presidential ticket, which is natural enough in a political party and which we will have to get used to. Having left this coalition united is a great legacy.
What did you learn when you drew a balance of your time in public life? What did it leave you? How different a person is this Nicolás today from the one before?
I'm another person, of course. Wiser, less arrogant and understanding the need to talk to other people. That is to say you enter public life thinking that you are going to take such and such a measure and that you are going to beat that person and this to it – that does not exist when you have to think of the rebound effects B, C and D and talk to the interested parties to construct some kind of consensus. So I've become a person who listens much more and who has learned that the years do not go by in vain.
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Edward Hopper at the Whitney Museum
24th March 2015 In Where to Hang By Ellie Seymour
Did you know there are over 3000 Hopper paintings at the Whitney Museum of American Art? No? Neither did I until the museum recently Tweeted about it. I'm glad they did because he's one of my favourite artists. I love the emptiness and silence his paintings convey, especially in this one, called Early Sunday Morning painted in 1930, showing shops and businesses along New York's Seventh Avenue just after sunrise. You can see it on display as part of the museum's first exhibition – America is Hard To See – in its new Renzo Piano-designed downtown location which opens on 1st May.
How many Hoppers have you seen at the Whitney? What's your favourite?
Also… Join Whitney curator, Carter Foster, on a 'walking' tour of some of the sights in New York City that inspired Hopper, here or discover Hopper's birthplace and childhood home – now a museum – in the town of Nyack an hour north of Manhattan in the Hudson Valley, here.
(Photo credit: Whitney Museum of American Art)
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The Ritual Chamber of Akali is the largest chamber in Gundrak for worshiping one of their primal gods. This is where Gal'darah <High Prophet of Akali> can be found.
To get here the bridge must be in the correct position, and to do that one must defeat the other bosses and activate the nearby altars in Gundrak.
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According to the National Venture Capital Association, venture capital does around 4.000 deals a year, while the average is approximately $20-$30 million a year. This includes both initial investment and follow up.
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And it's a hit or miss type of business. They are fully aware they cannot always expect returns on the entire collection of companies. The ones who win will have to pay for the ones who lose. According to the National Venture Capital Association, about 40% of VC-backed companies fail, another 40% register moderate returns and only 20% are actually successful.
Venture Capitalists invest in businesses that show an outstanding growth potential. Moreover, they must have extremely strong management teams because they will have to be able to scale up – getting to high volume of sales extremely fast. They must have a unique component, something different like a secret recipe or technology that will put them ahead of the competition rather than just being bait for the big sharks.
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How Can I Call What Is Between Us a Past?
Drawn from International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013, How Can I Call What Is Between Us a Past? is a chapbook of poetry by Adonis presented in Arabic, English, and Chinese. How Can I Call What Is Between Us a Past? is also available, along with the chapbooks of other internationally renowned poets, in Islands or Continents (Eighteen-volume Set). Selected poems from this volume are featured in the anthology Islands or Continents: International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013.
Ali Ahmad Said Esber, known to readers as Adonis, was born in a rural village in Syria in 1930. He graduated with a degree in philosophy from Damascus University and went on to earn a doctoral degree in Arabic literature from St. Joseph University in Beirut. Adonis has written more than fifty books of poetry, criticism, essays, and translation in his native Arabic. He is recognized as one of the most important poets and theorists of literature in the Arab world, and one of the most important contemporary poets and thinkers in any language or context. His influence on Arabic poetry can be compared with that of Pound or Eliot on poetry in English, combined, however, with a radical and secular critique of his society.
Adonis's many awards include the International Poetry Forum Award (Pittsburgh, 1971), National Poetry Prize (Lebanon, 1974), Grand Prix des Biennales Internationales de la Poésie (Belgium, 1986), Prix de Poésie Jean Malrieu Étranger (France, 1991), Prix de la Méditerranée (France, 1994), Nazim Hikmet Prize (Turkey, 1994), Lerici-Pea Prize (Italy, 2000), Oweiss Cultural Prize (UAE, 2004), the BjØrnson Prize (Norway, 2007), the Zhong Kun International Poetry Prize (China, 2009), and the Goethe Literature Prize (Germany, 2011). In 1997 the French government named him Commandeur de I'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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The Kentucky Office for Vocational Rehabilitation also includes different divisions whose main purpose is to work with individuals who have specific disability types and may need very specialized services. We have specialized Blind Services staff who work with people who have significant visual impairments. We also have staff who specialize in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services. We offer many services that can be very specific to the needs on an individual with a disability or a business. For more information on how we can assist you, please contact one of our local offices and speak to one of our staff.
Somerset Community College, Workforce Solutions Department — The Workforce Solutions Department is committed to providing solutions for the workforce development needs of the local business community. We offer high-quality, cost-effective customized training and assessment services that are designed to improve the performance and efficiency of your company. SCC Workforce Solutions staff will work with you to design training programs to meet the specific needs of your company and bring them directly to your location at a time convenient for you. Most classes award academic credit which may be applied towards a certificate, diploma or associates degree offered at SCC. In addition to the training, SCC Workforce Solutions staff can help clients develop a KY WINS project, if eligible, that will assist with the training costs. We offer training in the following areas: Leadership, Team Building, Customer Service, Lean/Quality/Six Sigma/ISO, Maintenance and Technical Training, Computer, Safety, Employee Development, CDL, Lineman, and Continuing Education.
Experience Works – Experience Works is a national, charitable, community-based organization focused on meeting the training and employment needs of individuals who are 55 and older, unemployed and have a limited income. Serving 59 counties in Kentucky as well as 29 other states (and Puerto Rico), Experience Works is the largest and oldest Employment & Training Program for seniors in the nation.
Goodwill Industries — Goodwill helps seniors find work, develop new skills and talents, and build their financial security by taking advantage of the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP). SCSEP is an on-the-job training and employment program designed to help those aged 55 and older update their job skills, build work experience and confidence, and continue to have economic security and well-being.


Posted October 19, 2018 by Andrew Dexter & filed under Headlines, News.
Ray Donovan has set its UK return date for October 31st, with with the sixth season of the fixer drama set to debut on Sky Atlantic at 9pm on Halloween. Spooky!
This will be a nice quick transition from the USA to the UK: Ray Donovan season 6 episode 1 will debut on Showtime for American viewers on October 28th, before travelling across the pond for the UK premiere on Sky Atlantic on October 31st.
We'll bring you more TV news as we hear it.


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Q: Elastic Search Function_Score Query with Query_String I was doing search using elastic search using the code:
es.search(index="article-index", fields="url", body={
  "query": {
    "query_string": {
      "query": "keywordstr",
      "fields": [
        "text",
        "title",
        "tags",
        "domain"
      ]
    }
  }
})

Now I want to insert another parameter in the search scoring - "recencyboost".
I was told function_score should solve the problem
res = es.search(index="article-index", fields="url", body={
  "query": {
    "function_score": {
      "functions": {
        "DECAY_FUNCTION": {
          "recencyboost": {
            "origin": "0",
            "scale": "20"
          }
        }
      },
      "query": {
        {
          "query_string": {
            "query": keywordstr
          }
        }
      },
      "score_mode": "multiply"
    }
  }
})

It gives me error that dictionary {"query_string": {"query": keywordstr}} is not hashable.
1) How can I fix the error?
2) How can I change the decay function such that it give higher weight to higher recency boost?

A: You appear to have an extra query in your search (giving a total of three), which is giving you an unwanted top-level.  You need to remove the top-level query and replace it with function_score as the top level key.
res = es.search(index="article-index", fields="url", body={"function_score": {
    "query": {
        { "query_string": {"query": keywordstr} }
    },
    "functions": {
        "DECAY_FUNCTION": {
            "recencyboost": {
                "origin": "0",
                "scale": "20"
            }
        }
    },
    "score_mode": "multiply"
})

Note: score_mode defaults to "multiply", as does the unused boost_mode, so it should be unnecessary to supply it.

A: You cant use dictionary as a key in the dictionary. You are doing this in the following segment of the code:
"query": {
    {"query_string": {"query": keywordstr}}
},

Following should work fine
"query": {
    "query_string": {"query": keywordstr}
},

A: use it like this
     query: {
        function_score: {
          query: {
            filtered: {
              query: {
                bool: {
                   must: [
                      {
                        query_string: {
                          query: shop_search,
                          fields: [ 'shop_name']
                        },
                        boost: 2.0
                      },
                      {
                        query_string: {
                          query: shop_search,
                          fields: [ 'shop_name']
                        },
                        boost: 3.0
                      }
                  ]
                }
            },
            filter: {
      //          { term: { search_city:  }}
            }
          },
          exp: {
            location: {
               origin: { lat:  12.8748964,
                lon: 77.6413239
              },
              scale: "10000m",
              offset: "0m",
              decay: "0.5"
            }
          }
  //        score_mode: "sum"
        }


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I am honored and humbled to be a recipient of the Presidential Award. This award honors and celebrates the collaboration and dedication of many colleagues, administrators, students, and families who have supported, encouraged, and inspired me daily. I am proud of the work that the educators in my district do each day for our students. Receiving this award fuels my passion for teaching and my commitment to being a life-long learner.
Cheri DeSoto Fayetteville, AR | K-6, Science, 2018
Cheri DeSoto has been an educator for 26 years. Cheri has taught science and social studies at Holt Middle School for the past four years. She previously taught at West Fork Elementary School for 17 years, Vandergriff Elementary for one year, and Butterfield Elementary for four years. Cheri strives to make science relevant to all her students. She does this by allowing them ownership over their learning within the science curriculum. Students explore and discuss science and are asked to relate it to their world, helping them understand their role as global citizens. She is most proud of her partnership with the Ozark Natural Science Center. It has allowed her district to immerse their students in authentic science learning and experience how daily decisions impact the world in which they live. Cheri serves on the district's science curriculum task force. She is Holt's School Level Improvement Plan (SLIP) Committee Chairperson. Cheri is also a mentor for the UAteach Program at the University of Arkansas. Cheri earned a B.S.Ed. in kindergarten through sixth grade elementary education, a middle school Social Studies Endorsement, a master's of elementary education, a Reading Specialist degree, K-12, and an ESL Certification/Endorsement, all from the University of Arkansas. She is a certified middle school teacher and is certified in kindergarten through sixth grade curriculum.


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Epitafium, plural epitafier, latin epitaphium, av grekiska epitaphios 'hörande till grav', bildat av epi 'till' och taphos 'grav', är en med inskrift försedd minnestavla över en död person. Epitafiet kan vara uppsatt i eller utanför en kyrka. Epitafier placeras normalt inte i anslutning till någon grav och tjänar alltså ett annat syfte än till exempel en gravsten.

Historik
Epitafier förekommer i romersk-katolska länder sedan 1300-talet. På ett epitafium framhävs vanligen den döde som en god kristen, ofta bedjande inför Kristus tillsammans med sina anhöriga. I de protestantiska länderna blev epitafier vanliga under 1500- och 1600-talen. De gavs ofta en rik arkitektonisk gestaltning, besläktad med samtida predikstolar och altaruppsatser. Epitafier kan vara av trä, sten eller metall och upptar ofta en andaktsbild samt en målad framställning av den döde och hans familj. Tavlans inskrift kan, förutom data om den avlidne, utgöras av bibelspråk, sentenser eller versifierat epigram. Under antiken avsågs med epitafium en gravinskrift, oftast ett epigram.

Under renässansen och barocken kunde epitafierna vara mycket påkostade och rikt utsmyckade.

Epitafier ska inte blandas samman med s.k. huvudbaner. Dessa bars i begravningståget och hängdes därefter upp i kyrkan. Ett epitafium, vilket innehöll gravskrift över den döde, placerades efter begravningen i kyrkan, men medfördes aldrig i själva processionen.

Se även
 Kenotaf
 Stele
 Begravningsvapen
 Minnestavla
 Plakett

Referenser

Nationalencyklopedin, band 5, sid. 554, 1991.
Håkan Zetterquist, Släktvapen och epitafier i S:ta Ragnhilds kyrka, Södertälje, Strängnäs stiftshistoriska sällskap, Strängnäs, 2011

Noter

Begravning
Kyrklig interiör

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


It's easy to fall in love with wagyu. The meat is deliciously buttery. The steak yields to your knife with the lightest touch. And then there's shimofuri, the mesmerising web of frosted snow 'marbling' spread across the slab of red meat.
You'll find 'wagyu' quite easily these days in casual offshoots boasting hand-chopped wagyu patties or tartare. But connoisseurs will know that when it comes to this prized beef, provenance is key.
The term 'wagyu' itself translates to 'Japanese cow', but not all beef from Japan are qualifiers for this lofty label. Only four native breeds — Kuroge (Japanese Black), Akage (Japanese brown), Nihon Tankaku (Japanese Shorthorn), and Mukaku (Japanese Polled) — have this distinction, and they are raised with just one goal in mind: superior flavour.
And while there is not much truth to the fantastical tales of cows being given red wine spa massages, these vaunted 'true wagyu breeds' are raised in relative luxury.
"Miyazaki and Saga wagyu, for instance, are bred in very similar ways. But each ranch and prefecture has their own special feed and unique climate," says Joshua Brown, executive chef of CUT at Marina Bay Sands. "More importantly, the flavour of the meat varies from sweet to grassy, depending on the cattle's diet," he adds.
Cue thoughts of lush greenery, pristine waters and quality feed that all work together to fatten the calf.
Keyyes takes you through the different types of wagyu from various prefectures, and lists five Singapore restaurants with top-grade wagyu on their menus.
This discreet Japanese restaurant tucked along Tras Street is the sole purveyor of Ozaki wagyu here. Like seeking out a Hattori Hanzō sword, Osaka-born executive chef Hirohashi Nobuaki journeyed to Miyazaki Prefecture to court rogue farmer Manuharu Ozaki. Ozaki's obsession with producing top-grade wagyu has led to over 30 years of research, and he only produces one cow per day for the wagyu market. Ozaki's cows are slaughtered at 36 months (instead of the usual 28) as Ozaki believes the flavour of the beef deepens with the extra maturation time. Ozaki also adds charcoal and seaweed mash to his feed. This, says the master, keeps his cattle in prime health and produces leaner – though still well-marbled – beef. Enjoy it at Ushidoki in the form of a wagyu kaiseki, where Ozaki wagyu is showcased through courses like a beef tongue consommé and wagyu sashimi.
There's a lot of beef on Origin Grill's menu, but the star of Shangri-La Hotel's swanky steakhouse is the full-blood wagyu A4 from Niigata, the only place in Japan where snow-aging and storage is done. You've heard of the usual dry or wet-ageing, but snow-aging is something quite different. It takes place in a snow-covered wooden hut, at a consistent temperature of 1 to 2 deg C, for 30 days. The snow-aged beef, by now infused with deep umami flavour, is then packed in a sealed bag before being air-flown directly to Singapore. Exclusive to Origin Grill.
CUT is one of the few places in town to serve Kobe, arguably the most famous and prized of all wagyu.
Since it opened its doors in 2010, CUT has built close relationships with its beef suppliers. This means you can expect to see rare, heritage beef and up to six different types of wagyu on the menu. CUT is one of the few places in town to serve the prized Kobe, as well as Saga wagyu, both bred under strict conditions. Saga beef, for instance, must be from a black-haired Japanese cow, bred in an agricultural association-designated farm, and must meet a mark of above 7 out of 12 in the Beef Marbling Standard set by the Japan Meat Grading Association. Raised under these uncompromising conditions in a peaceful climate, the fine-grained marbled meat is grilled to desired doneness and seasoned simply with salt and pepper.
Gyu Bar's unique selling point is the rare Wa-OH wagyu from Kumamoto prefecture.
Opened by the same good people behind Sushi Kimura, Gyu Bar is one of the few places that serves premium Wa-OH beef from Kumamoto prefecture on Kyushu island. Wa-OH is prized for its rarity – only 17% of beef from Kumamoto is classified as such. Kumamoto's crisp fresh air and pristine waters make for a serene environment for the cows, and the animals are given a special blend of feed so the beef is extra-tender, but less fatty than usual wagyu. Gyu Bar takes pains to fly in the whole cow (deboned), instead of just neatly-filleted cuts, so you get to try surprising or unfamiliar parts. The tomo-sankaku (a cut near the bottom round), for instance, isn't on the a la carte menu. Why? Because there's just too little of the pure, creamy melt-in-the-mouth cut to go around. Get the omakase menu to sample this hard-to-find pleasure.
Hidden in a corner of Camden Medical Centre, this classy Japanese restaurant brings in some of the best wagyu from Japan. The beef from Ohmi and Miyazaki are grilled on white charcoal (following the traditional Japanese fashion), and are paired with crispy garlic chips and soy sauce. For something a little out of the norm, try the Mayura Station full-blood Australian wagyu. The cattle are fed grain for 600 days, and chocolate (lucky cows) for the last 120 days, to produce beef that is sweet, buttery and robust in flavour.


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Parafia Najświętszego Serca Jezusowego w Trzebiczu – parafia rzymskokatolicka, terytorialnie i administracyjnie należąca do diecezji zielonogórsko-gorzowskiej, do dekanatu Drezdenko. W parafii posługują księża archidiecezjalni. Według stanu na styczeń 2020 proboszczem parafii był ks. Tadeusz Wołoszyn.

Przypisy

Parafie w dekanacie Drezdenko
Parafie pod wezwaniem Najświętszego Serca Jezusowego
Religia w gminie Drezdenko
Trzebicz (województwo lubuskie)


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"Cold hands, warm heart"
Walking along the streets of the Downtown Eastside with one of my teachers, Mr. Hall by my side I looked through the streets, taking it all in. Despite the fact that I have been through this area many times, it still takes me by surprise how not only immensely different these people's life styles are, but reminded once again how fortunate I am to have what I have. Most people along these streets were either busy finding a new place to sit, busy to get to work or looking for their next fix. As my eyes were searching the streets a friendly smile caught my eye. She smiled and said hello and right away I was taken with her kindness and happy nature. She was easy to talk to, open and I soon learned incredibly courageous. She told me her name was Loretta and after talking with her a few minutes I realized just how inspiring she was.
As I always do, I asked Loretta if she would be comfortable sharing her story. She was enthusiastic about the idea explaining to me that it's so important to talk about these things, to talk about life. Not only to connect with other people and educate them on what happens in the area that she lives, but also that it was important for her. That it was a big part of her healing process and being able to get sober, to get better. Loretta explained to me that she lived on the Downtown Eastside for the last 5 or so years. She now lives in the local women's shelter where she has been able to find a safe, warm space to sleep. She then went on to tell me about her life, about her ups and downs and her journey. I was amazed at her courage to share, her openness and her incredible strength. Loretta told me that she grew up on a reserve up in Bella Bella, where she said life consisted of plenty of drinking and drugs. "You got drunk everyday" she explained, there were no rules and fun as that may be for a while, you eventually have to be hard on yourself. Loretta eventually moved down here to Vancouver for reasons that she did not share with me, but she found a life with a community, with friends to look out for her. But behind the friendship and the good times, there was plenty of hardship, plenty of struggle and plenty of desire for a different life for herself.
Loretta explained to me that when she decided to take her life into her own hands, to get herself better but she suffered from a heart attack that left her hospitalized. A heart attack that she said was the result of years of drugs and drinking. While laying in a hospital bed recovering from a major medical emergency, Loretta received the news that her sister had passed away. The news Loretta shared "pushed her over the edge" she just couldn't take it and relapsed to an addiction far stronger than the last. I could only imagine the pain that Loretta must have been going through, having two sisters myself I could only imagine what she went through. My heart went out to Loretta, I really felt for her. But despite the struggle, despite the hardship and despite the pain that Loretta went through, I met her at a turning point in her life.
Loretta told me that it was time for her, time for her to get better. Her strength, her will, her "I will do this" attitude was so empowering. Recovering from the loss of a loved one is difficult enough as it is let alone dealing with rehab on top of it. For many recovering from addiction is an incredibly painful process that makes you physically and mentally exhausted and ill. Knowing this, yet still being so ready, so excited to take it on really inspired me. Realizing and accepting that you have a problem is never an easy thing to do, let alone actually seeking out the help to recover. As we parted our ways, she left with a hug, held onto my hands and said "hey we've got cold hands, but warm hearts", I left thinking to myself just how right she was about herself and admired her positive outlook.
Loretta taught me that it is so important to share, so important to be there for one another, to listen and help each other. She taught me how being open and honest is scary, it's hard and it takes courage but there is nothing wrong with being honest and to look for some love and support. So often we try our best to be perfect, to make our lives to look to be picture perfect and flawless. From our instagram accounts, to how we present ourselves, even right down to how we see ourselves. But at the end on the day, there is nothing wrong in having the courage to say "Ya, I have some flaws but I'm working on it" or "I am not okay and I need your help right now". As much as many of us are reluctant to do, it is so important to put yourself first sometimes and be your biggest advocate. Just as we want to be there for those we love they want to be there for us as well. So many people are fighting battles you know nothing about and you never know who you may be helping by being honest, open, authentic and real. We are all flawed, we all have things we are working on and that is okay. But not only do we need to find the strength to be real with others, but also real with ourselves. We are all, no matter if were eight or eighty are learning and growing and there is nothing wrong with that. But just like Loretta, realizing we have something we need to work on is not a flaw in our character, but rather the opposite. I hope that you can all learn from Loretta, just like I have the importance of sharing, being real and putting yourself first sometimes.
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It is really sad to see people who are facing problems like this, however, it is also my source of motivation. I mean, if these people can keep on fighting, then what makes me different? If I am feeling weak, then I will have no face to show in front of these people. All humans are weak, that is what makes us who we are. I really hope that I can bounce back from this thing that I am facing right now.


The network encouraged fans to tweet memories and photos of him ahead of and during the show.
Fans of the late Kristoff St. John bade an emotional farewell to the "The Young and the Restless" actor, as the final episode of the series he had been appearing on since 1991 aired Wednesday.
Kristoff, 52, died on Sunday in his Los Angeles home of a possible alcohol overdose.
In that final episode, St. John's character, Neil Winters, shared a warm exchange with his son Devon (Bryton James), in which Winters watched Devon's sister Ana step in to help her brother.
"She did it for you," said Winters. "Because that's what family does."
St. John had earned two Daytime Emmy Awards for his role. He and his co-stars recently appeared in a video promoting CBS' coverage of the Super Bowl. An autopsy was completed Monday, but results have not yet been released.
The actor's 24 year-old son Julian died in 2014 of an apparent suicide, and the actor tweeted a few weeks ago in response to someone writing about grieving the loss of a child.
"I think we all sort of tiptoed around what obviously weighed most heavily on his heart and his soul — and that is the death of his son," his co-star Eric Braeden told People magazine. "How do you discuss something so fundamentally tragic as that with even a friend? You don't want to touch that wound."
Clearly, St. John is missed by many.


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The first crack in the US college cartel
via New York Post
by Naomi Schaefer Riley
When it comes to the cost of college, we may have reached the tipping point.
According to a recent report in The New York Times, several colleges contacted applicants they hadn't heard from after the official May 1 deadline to accept an admissions offer to see if they wouldn't like to reconsider. Private schools, including Hampshire College in Massachusetts and Ursinus College in Pennsylvania, sent e-mails and texts to students after the point at which they were supposed to have put down a deposit.
According to the Times, "The messages all hinted at a particular question: Might a larger discount prompt you to come here after all?"
Colleges have been in the habit of negotiating for some time. They have acted a little bit like airlines where everyone seems to pay a slightly different price for the same product. Airlines don't ask for your tax returns before determining what you'll pay, but the system for determining who pays what is similarly oblique.
According to a recent study by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, "The estimated average institutional tuition discount rate for first-time, full-time freshmen at small institutions was 50.9 percent in 2016-17." That means colleges are getting less than half of the tuition they want based on their enrollment and price.
The higher education bubble may not have popped just yet, but according to Richard Vedder, who heads the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, "Net tuition fees adjusted for inflation are actually falling slightly." College is still very hard for many middle-class families to afford without incurring a mountain of debt, but at least the line is pointing in the right direction for the first time in decades.
For schools that are less selective, though, merely holding tuition steady has not been enough to get students in the door. Private schools have to get a certain number of "butts in seats" if they are going to survive, but enrollments are down once again this year.
They're having to take drastic measures. For instance, Northland College in Wisconsin just announced an across-the-board 7.5 percent pay cut for faculty and staff. Creighton University in Nebraska is cutting 60 non-faculty positions this fall.
So now some colleges are starting to look less like airlines and more like car dealerships. It's not just that everyone knows the sticker price is a farce. Everyone knows you have to dicker with the salesman.
Vedder says the fact that colleges called kids after the May 1 deadline is a sign that the "college cartel is starting to break down." Until recently, individual colleges couldn't continue to negotiate with students all summer long because of rules set by the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
Essentially the colleges have colluded with one another on the entire admissions process to ensure that they keep the upper hand. Now, however, some are willing to exploit a loophole: They simply assume applicants who don't notify them otherwise may still be interested in their schools.
As Steven Roy Goodman, a private college consultant in Washington, DC, explains, "the admissions process is designed to help universities. It's not designed to help students." But when institutions realize that these collective agreements are not working for them, they will start to opt out.
A NACAC representative determined that this particular outreach is kosher as long as there are no specific financial offers, and they are not directed toward students who have actually committed to another school.
But colleges may soon cross that line as well. "The free market may finally be coming to higher education," says Vedder. He's looking forward to a time when colleges have to do more advertising and even have "sales" on tuition.
Goodman, for his part, predicts that this trend will play out more over the summer as colleges accept kids from their waiting lists. He says students should use that opportunity to see if they can't squeeze a little more money out of schools.
"There's very little downside to asking," says Goodman. And there's plenty of upside.
?Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum.


I am very puzzled by the whole episode with Bigtan and Teresh (Esther 2:21-23). What exactly made them so mad that they wanted to kill the king? The gemarah (megillah 13b) says they were complaining of not getting any sleep because the king was sleeping with Esther every night. Which I assume means their job was to guard the door? So on a night that the king didn't sleep with the queen they weren't guarding the door? Do they not get to sleep during the day? And if their job was to guard the door how were they planning on poisoning the king? Wouldn't the king summon some other servant to bring him food and drink? see Pirkei D'Rebbi Eliezer 50 for full description of their plot.
The basic answer is that because the king was sleeping with Esther so often he became thirsty very often so they were constantly having to bring him water and then later bring him his lavatory. See Rashi's comments on Megillah 13b.
It was their job to both guard the door and supply any of his needs during the night. When he wasn't sleeping with Esther they just guarded the door, but now that he was sleeping with her their workload increased significantly. Since their job was to both guard the door and provide for the kings nighttime needs they were able to have one person slip off to get poison while the other did double duty. See the Ben Yehoyada on the above cited gemarah who goes into great detail of the problem and how the plot was detected.
The Targum to Esther 2:21 says that Bigtan and Teresh were jealous of the many honors given Mordechai by Esther, and worried that they would be replaced by him.
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This week we spoke to Nitin Agarwal, the founder of B21, the world's first personal wealth management platform for crypto, about bringing crypto to the mass market and why it's so important for a fintech product to be regulated. Read the interview below.
About: Co-inventor of the crypto-linked debit card. Fintech and crypto product specialist. Early investor in multiple cryptocurrencies including BTC, ETH and EOS.
Experience: Worked with First American, PayPal and Wave Crest. 15 years of experience in building products, financial services, marketing and sales functions.
Interviewer: Hello, Nitin! In your own words, tell us about B21.
Nitin Agarwal: B21 is bringing investing in crypto assets to the masses by building a personal wealth management platform, which lets users create their own portfolio of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS and many others, including bespoke crypto funds. B21Invest allows customers to invest using local fiat currency, has a user-friendly dashboard, and supports recurring investments, allowing users to set financial goals and invest over longer periods of time.
We have applied for a DLT license from the Gibraltar FAC, which will allow B21 to receive funds, exchange currencies, provide custodial services on behalf of its customers and advise on crypto asset investments.
We are also launching B21 Life, a free interactive mobile app which will help educate people about crypto, the technology behind it and investment processes. The app provides training courses, simple explanations of crypto terms, and a curated list of major news articles each day, all with the goal of accelerating mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency assets. The app is free to use and will be available on Apple Store and Google Play. Users of this app can also earn free B21 tokens, which gives them discounts on fees for using the B21 Investment app.
I: What pushed you to create B21?
NA: All three founders knew that it is difficult for common people, like our moms, for example, to get involved in crypto, we knew that something is missing. We decided that there was a gap in the market for a product that would allow the mass market to invest and we had to do something about it. So we started B21.
NA: Everyone, really. Especially for those that are interested in learning about cryptocurrencies and how they work, we are offering free tutorials and simple explanations of the whole industry, which will be of interest to those looking to make a career in crypto and those who have an interest in cryptocurrency as an investment, but are not sure how to go about it.
I: How is B21 different from competitors?
NA: Most platforms on the market feature highly technical interfaces and require investors to have some knowledge and an understanding of how wallets, passphrases, exchanges and online trading works. If an investor wants to invest in a few different currencies then they need to maintain multiple wallets, multiple trading accounts and manage multiple passwords and usernames. With B21 you only need one account to invest in multiple crypto assets, and it's very easy to do regardless of your level of crypto knowledge.
I: How have you grown B21's presence in the market?
NA: We have built momentum in the space from being present at top blockchain events around the world, particularly in Asia, where we have seen a tremendous support for B21.
We are also continuously working on securing opportunities to work with quality businesses, such as our partnerships with Coinfirm, Salus Alpha and Flexepin, and the recent partnership with Decentre for the marketing of B21 in Asia.
Having an advisory board which includes leading cryptocurrency advisors who believe in B21, such as Brock Pierce, Samson Lee, Michael Terpin and Mike Noh is also a key factor in how our presence has grown and continues to grow. In this game credibility is everything.
NA: We use a mix of structured and unstructured ways of working. We ensure that all tech and business documents are in place and that they are structured. We also have unstructured meetings and interactions with the whole team regularly and keep the culture open, so that everyone can ask any questions and get involved with all aspects of our business plan.
NA: One of the biggest challenges that we face is the market itself. Cryptocurrency is a relatively new space, and it's volatile, so people are scared simply because they don't understand it.
Besides, the process of investing in cryptocurrency is complicated and requires some technical knowledge, and investment platforms are not built for first-time investors, which puts people off. But we are making it easy for the mass market to invest, that is our main objective.
The regulation process is a challenge too. We aim to be the world's first regulated and tokenized crypto asset investment company. We have applied for a custodial license to comply with governmental regulations covering protection of customer assets, segregation of customer and company funds, maintaining robust and accurate transaction records, and cold storage of customer funds. By acting as a custodian, B21 eliminates the need for people to hold their own private keys. Gibraltar was the first jurisdiction in the world to launch regulations for DLT related businesses, something we are proud to be a part of. And for our fintech product to be a success we need to be regulated— a process that can be complicated and takes time.
I: What's next for B21? What's in the nearest future?
NA: Any day now we will be launching our educational app, B21Life, and continuously updating it with fresh content, news, training videos and tutorials. After this, we will be launching B21Invest, our investment app, and after that our ICO will go on sale to the general public. As we grow, we will expand our team in Gibraltar too. It's a very exciting time for B21.
NA: In five years I'd like to see B21 build the world's largest crypto asset investment community. Hopefully, we will have helped millions of people to understand cryptocurrency, the technology behind it, and, most importantly, how to invest. We would also like to see our token become a huge success. It's in our vision to extend our main office in Gibraltar and to open offices internationally. But, most importantly we want to create the distribution of wealth for everyone!
We would like to see the crypto industry become the future, and with that B21 to become the top investment platform. There is an exciting buzz around Gibraltar in the crypto space at the moment, and we are excited to be a part of that and watch it grow into one of the main cryptocurrency hubs in Europe.
NA: Take that risk, think outside the box, and put in the hard work. When times get stressful and difficult – keep going. No one becomes successful by following the norm. It's not easy to start a business, it requires a lot of hard work, dedication and sleepless nights, but it is most definitely worth it!
NA: Deliver a regulated fintech product which can scale. For our fintech product to be successful we need licensing, great tech and solid relationships with other providers. This is what we bring to the table as a team.
NA: We would like to hone our skills in online marketing — this is something we are continuously striving to do. Digital marketing space is advancing daily and it is important to keep up to date with new trends and expand on existing skills to stay ahead of the game.
NA: I think that failure shapes the person's character.
NA: If my product is being used, then I am successful.
NA: People and relationships. Regardless of the type of business you are in, you need to establish and maintain relationships, whether it be with employees, business associates, suppliers or customers. This is what helps your business grow genuinely strong.
NA: To work on what I love and what I am passionate about. To work on my strengths and hire people to help me work on my weaknesses.
I: What are the top books you would say have influenced your life or your work ethic the most?
NA: Start-up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston.
NA: By spending time with family, playing with my kids. Work-life balance is difficult. I try to create memories with my family – go for holidays exploring places, spend time building projects and trying new things.


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The Democrats Can Solve Their "Religion" Problem Without Pandering or Forgetting Their Values February 2, 2017 Hemant Mehta
The Democrats Can Solve Their "Religion" Problem Without Pandering or Forgetting Their Values
In the video below, Emma Green of The Atlantic talks about the problem with Democrats who can't always speak in the language of faith. It's not that Democrats have to become more religious — the Party is pretty religious already — but they're not nearly as comfortable as Republicans at talking about how their faith influences their decisions.
A Democrat talking about religion is like Donald Trump talking about black people: It's always awkward, it's often misinformed, and you really wish they'd just shut up about it.
Maybe that's because a lot of elected Democrats are not all that religious to begin with. Maybe they don't want to alienate the ever-growing part of their base that is non-religious. Maybe they just seem disingenuous when they do it.
But there's no mistaking the fact that Republicans who speak in the language of religion do a better job at getting white evangelical support even when their values don't align. Only one party actively works on behalf of the poor, and the minorities, and the people who are routinely disenfranchised, and the environment — you know, the issues we're always told Jesus cares about — and yet it's not the party evangelicals typically support.
There's absolutely a case to be made that Democrats shouldn't use faith as a political tool. Politicians should base their decisions on evidence, not whatever God whispers in their ears, and their speeches should reflect that — but as with so much of politics these days, while Democrats are busy arguing over whether to do the "right" thing, the Republicans are breaking the rules left and right and winning every time.
Democrats can do this without pandering. Green brings up Rev. William Barber in North Carolina, who uses his faith to push for liberal issues. (His speech at the Democratic National Convention this summer was incredible.) A lot of credit goes to him for getting anti-LGBT bigot Pat McCrory out of the Governor's Mansion this past November, even while so many states were voting for Trump. We could use more people like him, comfortable in talking about his personal faith, but more interested in achieving particular goals than proselytizing.
Green also brings up Bernie Sanders, who isn't religious in any meaningful sense, but did a remarkable join of rallying Democrats around income inequality, which he always speaks of as a moral issue. That's just as important.
I would go a step further than Green in one area. While Democrats who are religious ought to talk about how their faith and reason point them in a particular direction, those who are not religious ought to do a better job of talking about how faith doesn't play a role in their thinking instead of just avoiding the subject. Atheists need something to rally around, too.
The strange thing about Democrats is that they're not religious enough for white evangelicals, and they're too religious for the atheists, Agnostics, and "Nones" who make up a growing percentage of their base. All the more reason to stop playing to some middle group that doesn't exist. Just speak honestly, in whatever words are most comfortable to you, and deliver on our shared values of inclusion, common sense, and reason.
It's not like the GOP can do that.
Ricky Gervais Hilariously Deconstructed a Tweeted Threat from a Christian Fundamentalist
February 2, 2017 In South Africa, a Proposed Law to Ban Hate Speech May End Up Putting Christian Preachers in Jail


Welcome to Torsås autumn market!
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Q: How to use gitlab comments to tell jenkins to do special tasks Today we are sending build-trigger as notes (eg comments) från gitlab merge-requests to tell jenkins start a pipeline. Since we only had one such task we have been happy enough with just checking if a trigger sent as a note reached our pipeline and then acted on that information.
But, now we would like to add more user-requested tasks and need to inspect the comment for the type of request the user ask for.
From the documentation at https://github.com/jenkinsci/gitlab-plugin there are no variables that carries the information from note-trigger to the pipeline. The note seems to be discarded after the comment-regex-filter in the job-configuration in the gui.
I hope I have missed something. Otherwise we have to fetch all notes for the merge-request from gitlab to the pipeline through a rest-call.

A: We are doing this (only difference is we are using Bitbucket). Here is the summary:

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*In Jenkins we have written code using (jenkins shared library).

*From within the application pipeline (jenkinsfile) we will make a call to the jenkins shared library method (say commentChecker()) to check the the git commit messages and understand what needs to happen.

*In the shared library code commentChecker() - we will first call the Bitbucket API for the branch and get all the commit messages. In your case I think you should able to call (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/commits.html) api and get the details and parse through the messages.

*Shared library is like a common function and all your projects can all this one function to check the commits, easy to handle and make changes.


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Home Products 1872 discharge for 'Buffalo Soldier' 10th US Cavalry Fort Sill (Indian Territory)
1872 discharge for 'Buffalo Soldier' 10th US Cavalry Fort Sill (Indian Territory)
Final Statement of Louis Porter a Private of Captain George T. Robinson's Company E of the 10th Regiment of US Cav., born in Lynchburg in the State of Virginia, aged 21 years 5 feet 6 1/3 inches high, Black complexion, Black eyes, Black hair, and by occupation a laborer, was enlisted by Capt. Davis, at Memphis Tenn., on the First day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to serve for 5 years, who is now entitled to a discharge by reason of Expiration of term of Service.
..was last paid by Paymaster Major___ to include the 29th day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy two, and has pay due form that time to this present date.
There is due to him sixty dollars retained pay
He is indebted to the United States One 37/100 dollars on account of extra clothing
He is indebted to the United States for tobacco $1.98
The cost of the ration at this post is 30 cents.
Signed at Fort Sill IT (Indian Territory) 1st May 1872 by George T Robinson Captain 10th Cavalry
On reverse, rules that apply to this form, then:
For value received I hereby transfer these final statements to J.S. Evans _ , signed with 'X' beside 'Lewis Porter'
Witnessed by me and I certify that this transfer has been noted on the soldiers discharge T.J. Spencer 1st Lt. 10th Cav.
Nice condition. Folded in three horizontally. Slight paper loss on one fold.
8 1/4" X 11" / 21 X 28 cm.
Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This nickname was given to the "Negro Cavalry" by the Native American tribes they fought in the Indian Wars.
Fort Sill, Oklahoma is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles southwest of Oklahoma City. The site of Fort Sill was staked out on 8 January 1869 (factual evidence of actual date needed), by Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, who led a campaign into Indian Territory to stop hostile tribes from raiding border settlements in Texas and Kansas.
George T. Robinson - court-martialed for fraud in 1875 , dishonorable discharge
The 10th U.S. Cavalry was formed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1866 as an all-African-American regiment. The 10th U.S. Cavalry regiment was composed of black enlisted men and white officers, which was typical for that era. By the end of July 1867, eight companies of enlisted men had been recruited from the Departments of Missouri, Arkansas, and the Platte. Life at Leavenworth was not pleasant for the 10th Cavalry. The fort's commander, who was openly opposed to African-Americans serving in the Regular Army, made life for the new troops difficult. Colonel Benjamin Grierson sought to have his regiment transferred, and subsequently received orders moving the regiment to Fort Riley, Kansas. This began on the morning of 6 August 1867 and was completed the next day in the afternoon of 7 August.
One of the first battles of the 10th was the Battle of the Saline River. This battle occurred 25 miles northwest of Fort Hays in Kansas near the end of August 1867. After a railroad work party was wiped out, patrols from the 38th Infantry Regiment (in 1869 reorganized into the 24th Infantry Regiment) with a 10th Cavalry troop were sent out to locate the "hostile" Cheyenne forces.
In 1867 and 1868, the 10th Cavalry participated in Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's winter campaigns against the Cheyennes, Arapahos, and Comanches. Units of the 10th prevented the Cheyenne from fleeing to the northwest, thus allowing Custer and the 7th Cavalry to defeat them at the decisive battle near Fort Cobb, Indian Territory.
For the next eight years, the 10th was stationed at numerous forts throughout Kansas and Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), including Fort Gibson starting in 1872. They provided guards for workers of the Kansas and Pacific Railroad, strung miles of new telegraph lines, and to a large extent built Fort Sill. Throughout this period, they were constantly patrolling the reservations and engaging "hostiles" in an attempt to prevent Indian raids into Texas.


The fourth annual UC Photo Race was held on July 4, 2011 as part of UC Celebration, the annual University City festival on Independence Day. UC Celebration Photo Race is a photo scavenger hunt on foot around the San Diego neighborhood of University City.
Check out the winners and clues!
What to bring: a teammate and a digital camera / camera phone.
Teams of two or more will be given a set of clues. Each clue when solved, will be a location or item in University City. Teams will need to take a photo of themselves at that location or with the listed item. Once all photos have been taken, team will return to the finish line, where the winners will be determined by reviewing the photos. Teams may travel on foot or on the UC Celebration trolley - no cars, bikes, skateboards, etc. The fastest team to correctly find and photograph themselves at the solution locations will be the winner!


Here's Ken's first pastel pencil painting that was done from scratch of his Daughter's Rottweiller. Ken was pleased with his work and his Daughter said he had captured her dog's expression exactly. To quote Ken, he thought she was being 'a wee bit kind to her old dad'. This reminded me of something I used to mention to my students in workshops & classes.
One of the biggest problems we artists have to deal with is our own belief in our work. There is no simple solution to this but think of it like this 'I am pleased with what I have done and it is the best I can do at my present level of experience, however I will take what I have learned here and will do better next time using the new skills I have learned'.
also love the challenge of finding something new to tackle in each picture I start and would you believe I always do.
One of the things your daughter said that is very complimentary is that you captured the Dog's expression exactly, this is more important that anything else.


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MTV celebrates 31 years on air
Aug. 1, 1981 MTV launches with the premiere of The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star." The first hour also featured videos from Pat Benatar, Rod Stewart, The Who, The Pretenders, Styx, and .38 Special. Credit: MTV
By Leora Arnowitz August 1, 2012 9:48 AM
On Aug. 1, 1981, MTV made its debut as the music video TV station. Now 31 years later, the channel has branched out, producing a slew of original shows, including hits like "The Real World" and "The Jersey Shore."
The first video to air on the network was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. The song was big overseas, but had yet to become popular in America. After it aired on MTV, the song quickly became a U.S. hit.
As we prepare for the next round of Video Music Awards on the network on Sept. 9, let's remember a time before the channel discovered reality shows and TRL.
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Gun Rights and Legislation
Big #2A Day in TX
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krucam
3rd Rock from the Sun...DFW, TX
7 Bills signed…
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/gov...awFkySuIOYVONPQ7Pp2rwjNhkQLzfg_6iuho6T0TgYQho
Senate Bill 19 (Schwertner/Capriglione) prohibits any governmental entity from contracting with any business that discriminates against firearm and ammunition businesses or organizations.
Senate Bill 20 (Campbell/Hefner) allows guests to store firearms in their hotel rooms.
Senate Bill 550 (Springer/Spiller) removes the shoulder or belt holster requirements, allowing Texans to carry firearms in whatever kind of holster they choose.
House Bill 957 (Oliverson/Springer) repeals the criminal offense of possessing, manufacturing, transporting, or repairing a firearm silencer. It also ensures that any firearm suppressor manufactured in Texas, and that remains in Texas, will not be subject to federal law or federal regulation.
House Bill 1500 (Hefner/Creighton) prevents any government entity from prohibiting the sale or transportation of firearms or ammunition during a declared disaster or emergency.
House Bill 1927 (Schaefer/Schwertner) authorizes Constitutional Carry in Texas, meaning law-abiding Texans can legally carry a handgun without a license to carry.
House Bill 2622 (Holland/Hall) makes Texas a Second Amendment Sanctuary State by protecting Texans from new federal gun control regulations.
John from MD
American Patriot
Socialist State of Maryland
SB19 is some powerful stuff. That means that banks and insurance companies under pressure from Cuomo/Bloomberg in NY to force those service providers to deny offerings to manufacturers, retailers, and even operations like the SAF or NRA are going to have to decide that doing Bloomberg's bidding is worth more to them than all of the gov-related business at the state, county, and municipal level all across that large Texas market. That one has national ramifications for us, so thank you Texans.
GTT - Gone To Texas
Thrilled to see so many steps being taken to reclaim our firearms rights here.
Not so thrilled to watch a bunch of RINO Butters like those seated at the table posing like it was all their doings which brought Texas to where she is today.
One Ping Only...
Mid-Maryland
GOD BLESS the REPUBLIC of TEXAS...
Occam said:
There should be a dozen or more other states that could get a law like that passed without difficulty.
Bullfrog said:
If even JUST Florida passed a clone of that law, NY-based banks/insurers would feel real pain if they lost the business of every municipal operation, public employee pension fund, county liquor store point of sale accounts, vehicle fleet liability insurance account, etc. That would add up very quickly. I hope Texas passes along the text of that bill right to the Dakotas, the red Gulf states and more.
MDFF2008
Meanwhile Texans are being told to not use their washing machines and other appliances and facing major power concerns.
Why am I posting this? Because people remember sitting in a hot house sweating their asses off, or a cold house freezing their asses off, and we've seen Democrats will make huge promises, even if they don't keep them, and the media will cover them.
Would hate to see so many 2A gains lost because they didn't focus on the basics.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...-year-round-vulnerability-texas-grid-n1271124
TinCuda
Get this! The ATF is currently arguing in court that a "silencer" is not subject to a recent Supreme Court ruling because they claim a "silencer" is not technically a "firearm", even though if a "silencer" is not classified as a "firearm", it would not fall under the jurisdiction of the ATF in the first place! You can't make this stuff up!
Texas AG Sues the ATF Over Regulation of 'Made in Texas' Suppressors - The Truth About Guns
&#9664Previous Post Next Post▶ Last year, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill that says suppressors that are built, owned, and used within the state are not subject to federal regulation under the National Firearms Act. The new law set up a legal challenge that, once it plays out...
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I personally think the ATF should just be a convenience store.
Should be interesting!
Texasgrillchef
So far things are still going in favor of Texas.
All I can say is that bill that passed on Silencers in 2021, is step 1 of several more bills that will come not just next year, but once certain things "Fall" with this bill. I can't reveal to much.
Other then keep a very close eye on this case, and a few bills that will be filed for next years legislative session.
rambling_one
Don't mess with Texas!
TinCuda said:
ATF cannot have their cake and eat it too!
Glad to see/hear about Texas with their new and forthcoming 2A legislation!
Foresee Florida and the other red states following suit.
Current SCOTUS will be busy.
Interesting times indeed.
Texas right now is the ONLY state that has actually filed a case using Tax dollars to fight Anti-2A gun laws.
Look at the list of the current 100 firearms cases in our courts around the country. They are all filed by individuals, and the various firearms groups. This case is the ONLY one filed by a State.
These two lawyers from the video are awesome. They are based in Houston Texas, I have met them several times. They are awesome and right in Target.
krucam said:
there were a few more… you forgot about senate bill 303 (I think) that removes sales tax on all firearm safety equipment. This includes safes, firearm locks, safety glasses, ear muffs, books on firearm safety training manuals etc… no sales tax.
So, how does this fall out then? You can't sue to not pay a tax, but the tax is unconstitutional. How does an inalienable right end up getting taxed in the first place?!? What does that do to the 1934 NFA? The lawsuit shouldn't be about whether a person doesn't want to pay a tax for their personal NFA item, the lawsuit should be about whether the tax should exist at all.
The left is bringing this all on themselves. They are beginning to believe their own pompous and sanctimonious propaganda. They are actually arrogant enough to think they are a majority, and they think that a majority of Americans would support being completely disarmed. The "progressives" spend the last two years engaging and promoting riots in the streets that caused billions of dollars of damage and not only did nothing, but very publicly bailed out and protected these same criminals. They cried "defund the police" and then time after time released violent, repeat criminals out of jail. People have had enough! Hey leftists! READ THE ROOM! There has been a record number of firearms sells in the last few years over the history of the earth! Eight million Americans in 2021 alone bought a gun, who had never in their life, ever owned a gun before. EIGHT MILLION! You can bet that I whole lot of those were AR15s.
Sorry for the rant. Back to my original point.
If the NFA includes a tax (infringement) to own a machine gun and a tax can't be challenged in court, wouldn't the whole NFA be in jeopardy?
This reminds me of how the Australians outlawed guns. Guns are completely legal to own in Australia, up to and including full auto machine guns. You just have to show cause that you need it. General self defense is not a recognized cause in Australia. If you can prove to the court that you need a full auto, belt fed, M2 .50 BMG to protect your livestock from predators, bingo! you can own one. Just, good luck proving to the court that you might need anything better than a slingshot.
I could see the current regime trying to pull something like this. "What are you talking about? We aren't banning anything. You just need a common sense license to own a pea shooter! A license that we issue and give to nobody". Hey lefty, what does a right mean again?
I really believe that the left will shoot themselves in the foot with all these shenanigans. By bringing all these anti-gun issues to court, they are merely shining light on how wrong and unconstitutional they really are. Time will tell but things are looking better for the firearm community.
Sorry again for the rant.
Biggfoot44
How does an inalienable right end up getting taxed in the first place?!?
Because back in 1934 , even Congress realized they had no Constitutional Authority to BAN certain catagories of Firearms .
Their workaround was to enact a Tax intended to be de facto prohibiting .
Biggfoot44 said:
That is exactly my point! This infringement must be corrected!
The Made in TX suppressor suit, Paxton v Richardson, docket. Some filings are available for viewing.
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